WASTE NOT WANT NOT

Customising recycled furniture is a beautiful way to help the environment

You may recycle but the question is: do you 'upcycle'? Interior designers are not only re-using plates, glasses, furniture and other accessories in the home but adding to them creatively to give them a whole new lease of life.
Take Zoe Murphy, an up-and-coming designer who has received a lot of attention for her brightly coloured Margate-inspired collection (below).
She makes all of her pieces from recycled furniture and fabrics.
'I base all of my work on the "love what belongs to you" concept and try to make people look again at the things they own,' she says.
Other designers getting in on the act include Rupert Blanchard - whose eight-piece collection of one-off cabinets made from old drawers and shuttering is on show at the Elemental shop in London's Spitalfields Market until the end of October - and Lou Rota, who customises unwanted china and furniture using decoupage, transfers and old newspaper.
'I always feel there's so much stuff out there that there's no need to make more,' Rota says. 'If you take the time you can make anything look wonderful.

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